Exam Details

  • Exam Code
    :SAA-C03
  • Exam Name
    :AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03)
  • Certification
    :Amazon Certifications
  • Vendor
    :Amazon
  • Total Questions
    :1304 Q&As
  • Last Updated
    :May 30, 2025

Amazon Amazon Certifications SAA-C03 Questions & Answers

  • Question 141:

    A company is running a highly sensitive application on Amazon EC2 backed by an Amazon RDS database. Compliance regulations mandate that all personally identifiable information (PII) be encrypted at rest. Which solution should a solutions architect recommend to meet this requirement with the LEAST amount of changes to the infrastructure?

    A. Deploy AWS Certificate Manager to generate certificates. Use the certificates to encrypt the database volume.

    B. Deploy AWS CloudHSM, generate encryption keys, and use the keys to encrypt database volumes.

    C. Configure SSL encryption using AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) keys to encrypt database volumes.

    D. Configure Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) encryption and Amazon RDS encryption with AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) keys to encrypt instance and database volumes.

  • Question 142:

    A company runs its applications on Amazon EC2 instances that are backed by Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS). The EC2 instances run the most recent Amazon Linux release. The applications are experiencing availability issues when the company's employees store and retrieve files that are 25 GB or larger. The company needs a solution that does not require the company to transfer files between EC2 instances. The files must be available across many EC2 instances and across multiple Availability Zones.

    Which solution will meet these requirements?

    A. Migrate all the files to an Amazon S3 bucket. Instruct the employees to access the files from the S3 bucket.

    B. Take a snapshot of the existing EBS volume. Mount the snapshot as an EBS volume across the EC2 instances. Instruct the employees to access the files from the EC2 instances.

    C. Mount an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system across all the EC2 instances. Instruct the employees to access the files from the EC2 instances.

    D. Create an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) from the EC2 instances. Configure new EC2 instances from the AMI that use an instance store volume. Instruct the employees to access the files from the EC2 instances.

  • Question 143:

    A company serves its website by using an Auto Scaling group of Amazon EC2 instances in a single AWS Region. The website does not require a database.

    The company is expanding, and the company's engineering team deploys the website to a second Region. The company wants to distribute traffic across both Regions to accommodate growth and for disaster recovery purposes. The solution

    should not serve traffic from a Region in which the website is unhealthy.

    Which policy or resource should the company use to meet these requirements?

    A. An Amazon Route 53 simple routing policy

    B. An Amazon Route 53 multivalue answer routing policy

    C. An Application Load Balancer in one Region with a target group that specifies the EC2 instance IDs from both Regions

    D. An Application Load Balancer in one Region with a target group that specifies the IP addresses of the EC2 instances from both Regions

  • Question 144:

    A company runs an AWS Lambda function in private subnets in a VPC. The subnets have a default route to the internet through an Amazon EC2 NAT instance. The Lambda function processes input data and saves its output as an object to

    Amazon S3.

    Intermittently, the Lambda function times out while trying to upload the object because of saturated traffic on the NAT instance's network. The company wants to access Amazon S3 without traversing the internet.

    Which solution will meet these requirements?

    A. Replace the EC2 NAT instance with an AWS managed NAT gateway.

    B. Increase the size of the EC2 NAT instance in the VPC to a network optimized instance type.

    C. Provision a gateway endpoint for Amazon S3 in the VPUpdate the route tables of the subnets accordingly.

    D. Provision a transit gateway. Place transit gateway attachments in the private subnets where the Lambda function is running.

  • Question 145:

    A company is designing an event-driven order processing system. Each order requires multiple validation steps after the order is created. An idempotent AWS Lambda function performs each validation step. Each validation step is independent from the other validation steps. Individual validation steps need only a subset of the order event information.

    The company wants to ensure that each validation step Lambda function has access to only the information from the order event that the function requires. The components of the order processing system should be loosely coupled to accommodate future business changes.

    Which solution will meet these requirements?

    A. Create an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue for each validation step. Create a new Lambda function to transform the order data to the format that each validation step requires and to publish the messages to the appropriate SQS queues. Subscribe each validation step Lambda function to its corresponding SQS queue.

    B. Create an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic. Subscribe the validation step Lambda functions to the SNS topic. Use message body filtering to send only the required data to each subscribed Lambda function.

    C. Create an Amazon EventBridge event bus. Create an event rule for each validation step. Configure the input transformer to send only the required data to each target validation step Lambda function.

    D. Create an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue. Create a new Lambda function to subscribe to the SQS queue and to transform the order data to the format that each validation step requires. Use the new Lambda function to perform synchronous invocations of the validation step Lambda functions in parallel on separate threads.

  • Question 146:

    A company is migrating a three-tier application to AWS. The application requires a MySQL database. In the past, the application users reported poor application performance when creating new entries. These performance issues were caused by users generating different real-time reports from the application during working hours.

    Which solution will improve the performance of the application when it is moved to AWS?

    A. Import the data into an Amazon DynamoDB table with provisioned capacity. Refactor the application to use DynamoDB for reports.

    B. Create the database on a compute optimized Amazon EC2 instance. Ensure compute resources exceed the on-premises database.

    C. Create an Amazon Aurora MySQL Multi-AZ DB cluster with multiple read replicas. Configure the application to use the reader endpoint for reports.

    D. Create an Amazon Aurora MySQL Multi-AZ DB cluster. Configure the application to use the backup instance of the cluster as an endpoint for the reports.

  • Question 147:

    A company is expanding a secure on-premises network to the AWS Cloud by using an AWS Direct Connect connection. The on-premises network has no direct internet access. An application that runs on the on-premises network needs to use an Amazon S3 bucket.

    Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

    A. Create a public virtual interface (VIF). Route the AWS traffic over the public VIF.

    B. Create a VPC and a NAT gateway. Route the AWS traffic from the on-premises network to the NAT gateway.

    C. Create a VPC and an Amazon S3 interface endpoint. Route the AWS traffic from the on-premises network to the S3 interface endpoint.

    D. Create a VPC peering connection between the on-premises network and Direct Connect. Route the AWS traffic over the peering connection.

  • Question 148:

    A company runs its application on Oracle Database Enterprise Edition. The company needs to migrate the application and the database to AWS. The company can use the Bring Your Own License (BYOL) model while migrating to AWS. The

    application uses third-party database features that require privileged access.

    A solutions architect must design a solution for the database migration.

    Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

    A. Migrate the database to Amazon RDS for Oracle by using native tools. Replace the third-party features with AWS Lambda.

    B. Migrate the database to Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle by using native tools. Customize the new database settings to support the third-party features.

    C. Migrate the database to Amazon DynamoDB by using AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS). Customize the new database settings to support the third-party features.

    D. Migrate the database to Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL by using AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS). Rewrite the application code to remove the dependency on third-party features.

  • Question 149:

    A company uses Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL databases for its data tier. The company must implement password rotation for the databases. Which solution meets this requirement with the LEAST operational overhead?

    A. Store the password in AWS Secrets Manager. Enable automatic rotation on the secret.

    B. Store the password in AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store. Enable automatic rotation on the parameter.

    C. Store the password in AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store. Write an AWS Lambda function that rotates the password.

    D. Store the password in AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS). Enable automatic rotation on the AWS KMS key.

  • Question 150:

    A company's application is running on Amazon EC2 instances within an Auto Scaling group behind an Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) load balancer. Based on the application's history, the company anticipates a spike in traffic during a holiday each year. A solutions architect must design a strategy to ensure that the Auto Scaling group proactively increases capacity to minimize any performance impact on application users.

    Which solution will meet these requirements?

    A. Create an Amazon CloudWatch alarm to scale up the EC2 instances when CPU utilization exceeds 90%.

    B. Create a recurring scheduled action to scale up the Auto Scaling group before the expected period of peak demand.

    C. Increase the minimum and maximum number of EC2 instances in the Auto Scaling group during the peak demand period.

    D. Configure an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) notification to send alerts when there are autoscaling:EC2_INSTANCE_LAUNCH events.

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